I fell like lightning
Cast out in all my glory
With a song
I go on singing
It was I who made Eve eat the fruit
Cain did my bidding and Abel died
I sing the song of war
All evil both night and day
Blessed I threw the spear
I intercede with hosts of demons
When you possess me
All hell will sing
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dVerse prompt on a monster’s point of view
I am on an inner search for kindness in my life. How I was rescued from my own dispair or sought to help another. Not wanting to confuse kindness with congeniality or cultural differences I felt a lifting of the heart when I thought of You.
The day You sent a message to the children of Israel that You would come again. The prophets wrote Your words that we should all repent. Hard to see the kindness in rebuke or recompense yet Your hope is there.
Let the soul find GOD
Hidden in small daily chores
I fall to my knees
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dVerse haibun prompt on kindness, still searching
Why is it so difficult to serve the cup of kindness or drink from it? The cup of cruelty still being offered up around the world as I sip my coffee and read The Post. Today’s headline of officials charged and the president fumes with frustration.
Now I want to measure my kindness in cups. A half cup of kind word. Three quarters of humility mixed with a cup of understanding. Maybe I can find a kinder way in a sometimes cruel world.
Be kind for the day
All resonants from within
Learn to give and take
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dVerse prompt haibun on kindness
opening
departing
I kept saying
painting
staving
waiting
living
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dVerse prompt erasure poem of Late Ripeness by Czeslaw Milosz and rebelling against a poetry teacher who said not to use the “ing” words
French platoon
Pack of riders
Save energy riding close
Near
Behind
Dramatic
The peloton travels
As birds flying in formation
Slip off
Rejoin
Manoeuvre
Develop fluid center
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Peloton Quilt by Fran Fuller for Ars Poetica Fiber Artists and Writers Collaboration at the Bainbridge Artisans Resource Network (BARN)
from on erasure poem:
dVerse prompt on erasure
Last night I wore the mask of sleep
I wore it well with eyes closed
Mouth slightly agape
It was quiet
Frozen shut from the world
Peaceful
Until shattered by a roar
Of the snore
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dVerse prompt on the mask
Creak
Creak
Old joints need oil
To keep them running smooth
Flax oil fish oil
To try to stop their creak
Stretch and flex
Genuflect
It’s more than just a prayer
Eat right
Live healthy
Follow the golden rule
Better to creak then croak
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dVerse prompt on quadrille using the word creak
Harvest comes later this year
combines in the field
separate soybeans from chaff
thrash the corn
aphids go down with the stalk
imported Japanese beetles
ladybugs and Asian lady beetles
(hard to tell the difference)
fly away home
try to survive the long winter
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dVerse prompt on an aspect of fall
The sand on my feet, waves lap at the leg of my pants, the water sometimes warm, sometimes cold. I can walk for miles on the beach and always search for a shell or a rock or some mysterious shape.
The best beach walk is after an all night storm and in the morning there is
calm. If you find your way before dawn there are only a few people. You might be the first to find a sea bean that has travelled all the way from Costa Rica.
water moves on earth
uniting the continents
seeks its own border
In the era of prohibition came Templeton Rye
a bootleg whiskey with a golden shine
smuggled in cases for many to try
favorite in speakeasies across the state line
even in Chicago Al Capone said it was fine
numbered small batches still being made today
from that same old recipe its here to stay
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dVerse prompt on rhyme royal about a whiskey made in Iowa
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